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I see a lot of poorly healed T-junction wounds on here. Some obviously infected, some just not healed yet. A few a week. It's like there are 4 main categories of wounds here. Diabetic feet, self harm*, basic injuries, and T-junctions.

So why are there so many T-junction wounds? Is it a known problem? Is there something better that physicians should look into, or is this a potential doctoral thesis for some current med student in need of a topic?

And much less importantly but more easily answered, purely for curiosities' sake, what are all the T-junctions used for?

*just because they're technically against the rules doesn't stop at least one from showing up every day.

Has anybody published any studies comparing just laser to mixing waxing and laser? I've been thinking, and there seem to be two benefits to mixing the two.

First, after laser, the hair takes some time to fall out as the body pushes it out. Waxing would effectively pull a lot of those hairs quickly.

Second, and perhaps of more benefit, after you wax, all the hair grows in anagen and everything that's growing in is now synchronized. Since laser works by killing the living hair follicles in anagen phase you effectively limit to only acting on parts that are actively in anagen phase.

So have any studies been done on the efficacy of this method? All the literature I've seen just says to shave and get laser on your provider's schedule every few weeks.

Did I get a defective unit, or is wifi always this bad?

To start off, I've tried Crosspoint 1.4.1, Crossink 1.3.4, and a few other versions, and had similar issues with official firmware as well. I've tried placing the device about 1 foot away from the wifi router, as well as restarting the wifi router. I currently have a mac-allow-list set up for the device on a dedicated wifi network configured as 2.4gHz only with nothing but alphanumerics for the ssid and password. Neither helped.

Whenever I try to connect to wifi, it takes often 5-10 tries to get a connection. Often erroring with a timeout message or a general failure. When it does show the connected screen, calibre will fail to detect it, or detect it and get a socket error trying to read the books list or send any files at all.

I decided to connect the device to my laptop and capture logs, maybe see what the error message is, no joy.

As soon as I plug in the device, it seems like the debug script boots the device into a debug mode, and it connects perfectly almost every time! And it will send at least a few books every connection. It's not stable, but it's usable. And more importantly, it doesn't give any meaningful errors when the calibre app on the device stops responding. So I don't know if wifi is disconnecting, or if the app is crashing or what... but exiting out of the transfer menu allows the reader to continue being used as usual. Now, as soon as I unplug the device from my laptop, it goes back to having the same difficulties as above.

Lastly, it's not as simple as just plugging the device in. Having it powered from the laptop doesn't help. I need to start the debug console to get any meaningful success at connecting.

Does anybody have any tips? Or did I just get a bum device and need to exchange it? If it is a bum device, why does booting it into debug mode seem to fix it mostly? Is it an issue I should post about at crossink and crosspoint-reader githubs since I can reproduce it on both? Is anybody else having just about the same problems?

Find below the snippet from the log from the point I tried to connect until it succeeds.

[19:53:33] [INF] [WIFI] Auto-connect candidate: ssid=crossink-x4 saved=1
[19:53:33] [INF] [WIFI] Connecting to ssid=crossink-x4 auto=1 saved=1 encrypted=1 passProvided=1 heap=149280 maxAlloc=114676
[19:53:33] [INF] [WIFI] WiFi.begin returned status=6/DISCONNECTED
[19:53:33] [INF] [WIFI] Connection poll: elapsed=160ms status=6/DISCONNECTED rssi=0
[19:53:33]   Writing frame buffer to BW RAM (48000 bytes)...
[19:53:33]   BW RAM write complete (14 ms)
[19:53:33]   Powering on display 0x1C (fast refresh)...
[19:53:33]   Waiting for display refresh...
[19:53:33] [INF] [WIFI] STA event: connected to AP
[19:53:33] [INF] [WIFI] Connection poll: elapsed=237ms status=0/IDLE rssi=0
[19:53:33]   Wait complete: fast (421 ms)
[19:53:33]   Writing frame buffer to RED RAM (48000 bytes)...
[19:53:33]   RED RAM write complete (13 ms)
[19:53:35] [INF] [WIFI] Connection poll: elapsed=2243ms status=0/IDLE rssi=0
[19:53:37] [INF] [WIFI] Connection poll: elapsed=4249ms status=0/IDLE rssi=0
[19:53:39] [INF] [MEM] Free: 93396 bytes, Total: 223928 bytes, Min Free: 80788 bytes, MaxAlloc: 86004 bytes
[19:53:39] [INF] [WIFI] Connection poll: elapsed=6255ms status=0/IDLE rssi=0
[19:53:41] [INF] [WIFI] Connection poll: elapsed=8261ms status=0/IDLE rssi=0
[19:53:43] [INF] [WIFI] Connection poll: elapsed=10266ms status=0/IDLE rssi=0
[19:53:45] [INF] [WIFI] Connection poll: elapsed=12271ms status=0/IDLE rssi=0
[19:53:47] [INF] [WIFI] STA event: got IP 10.0.0.172
[19:53:47] [INF] [WIFI] Connection poll: elapsed=14277ms status=3/CONNECTED rssi=-80
[19:53:47] [INF] [WIFI] Connected to ssid=crossink-x4 ip=10.0.0.172 rssi=-80

I'm an LBKA. I've recently been in and out of wound care for my right foot, and the topic came up of potential toe amputation. I said to my doc that I decided after watching my grandpa struggle with repeated amputations that I would never let them take my toes, and would insist they take the whole foot and even me out. If it becomes a serious concern, I may be back here to discuss it... but In the meantime, a question came to mind.

Some context: I always tell people "I was 6'4 when I went into the hospital, and when I came out, I was a foot short". One of the reasons I would want a bilateral amputation is so I could be even 2-3" shorter and get smaller feet, since my size 14s have never caused me anything but trouble... so the thought that I could swap out the pillars between the socket and foot and loose 2-3" and be shorter is kinda a pro... and raises a fascinating question.

The question(s): how tall are you? How tall were you before the loss? How do you measure? (Like, do you only measure from the base of the stump now?) How much and how often do you customize your height? I couldn't imagine going more than 4" would be comfortable. It would throw the whole leg proportions off and make balance and stride length a pain... but what's the reality there?